<p>On Friday the 18th, Crist promised changes in the budget cuts, and actually an increase in $52 million to univeristies increases in student enrollment. I was surprised. He did admit that lower property taxes would have an effect, but the article I read said that the cuts would be adjusted so that they would then offset by the rise in tuition. While this is a net break even, it doesn’t allow the rise in tuition to help where they wanted it to, in hiring more prefessors and lowering class size. Not the what univeristies wanted. (Not what this parent wants.) I will look for his quotes. I do remember that he is saving money by putting a temporary freeze on NEW tuition subsidies for instate students going to an instate private school. Now the one for low income students, the access grant that ANY student of any means gets if they stay instate and go private. Although, he was not going to freeze the payments for new students going to the 4 predominately black private school, and any student already in college getting this would still receive it for next year.</p>
<p>And if I recall, he wants to increase per student funding at the K-12 level by $400.</p>